Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007

...which is wonderful.
The Microsoft Equation is much more improved and offers great options. Symbols are much easier to insert and there are basic symbols handy. Just at the left hand side there you can design a cover page at any point of time and it will show at the beginning of the file.

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The addition is Quick table, just on example inserts a quick calendar and edits it and it is possible for all the quick ...
...is very much recommended by Microsoft to save your database.

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The latest addition is the photo album and believe me it is excellent. But What I did not have time to experiment is the possibility of adding mp3 files instead of .avi. If mp3 format is supported it is something of an achievement.

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As far as different versions of Ms Office packages are concerned till Office 2003 there were hardly any marked differences but the Office 2007 Pro version has come up with quite some variations and too my mind makes working in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access that much easier with some improved options. The layout of menus is a bit different and once you are accustomed to them things are pretty simple and much more user friendly.

BASIC IMPROVISATIONS:

Comparing other versions of Office packages the first thing that tries you is the user menu. You just have Home, Insert, Page Layout, Reference, Mailings, Review and View. Instead of drop down menus when you click one of the main menus there you get boxes.

For example the Home menu gives you the basic options Font, Paragraph and styles. On the left hand side box gives you the basic cut, copy and the clipboard options. Again if you look at the clipboard options it can now remember 24 cut and copy features instead of the generally 12 features available in Office 2003 version or previous. Another improvement is the consolidation of basic menu options to one point so that you don’t have to search for them all over the place. Consider the Home main menu option: Here all the fonts’ options are staged up in one place and if you want more just look for the arrow beside Font, click you get all the extra options. Another addition is on the right hand side i.e. is select text with similar formatting, this is particularly useful.

Another very interesting feature id available in the Page Layout Menu, the Water mark option: I would suggest you to delve into this option you will be able to water mark your documents as “Confidential”, “Don’t” Copy and so on. But mind you they can be removed by you. Even you can make them static and only the person creating the file can remove it.

Another marked development is the paragraph spacing feature. By default Office 2007 give you auto 6pt spacing between paragraphs.

In the Home main menu look at the right hand corner and click style and see the number of styles available. Again although it is agreed you can install any number of fonts in all the versions of Office but the variety of default fonts available in Office 2007 is amazing the reason is embedding fonts in Adobe Writer becomes that much easier. Another addition is the draft view which is available right at the bottom right hand corner above the notification bar. There you get another wonderful view option and brand new too, “Full screen” reading. You need not scroll the pages. Just click this option and the pages you want read in full screen view appears. On the taskbar the innovations is great. Look at the left hand side, you gat an instant view of number of pages, word count and new the surprise ‘proof errors’. If you have problems in spelling and basic grammars it will show a ‘cross’ sign, it doesn’t end there, click the ‘cross’ make corrections. Don’t worry all the required correction options are there with suggestions. When you have a document with no corrections necessary it will show a “right” symbol. Oh by the way I forgot to tell you in the water mark section you can have picture water mark also for ornamentation.
The sort option has added features too, sorting by paragraph is possible!

NEW IN INSERT MAIN MENU:

True we are used to Word art but here there is Smart Art also. Just check the option. Previous versions had no option for Different and Footer. Now you can add different Headers and Footer for different pages, which is wonderful.
The Microsoft Equation is much more improved and offers great options. Symbols are much easier to insert and there are basic symbols handy. Just at the left hand side there you can design a cover page at any point of time and it will show at the beginning of the file.

TABLE:

The addition is Quick table, just on example inserts a quick calendar and edits it and it is possible for all the quick table options.
Now if you want to create a Curriculum Vita you need not separately insert table and then insert data, it is there as template and of course it is editable.

NEW IN PAGE LAYOUT:

From now on you can add line number nice and cool, you don’t need word editor.

REFERENCE:

This is a brand new addition but there not many surprises but one feature is the Adding Bibliography, which quite hand and interesting.

MAILINGS:

It mostly contains what were there in the Tool menu of the previous versions, only that the Mails Merge part has improved and you can send it to recipients directly.
A fabulous addition is the support of World lingo. Select the part you want to translate, click your translation language and click on the white arrow with green background (as long as World lingo supports the requested language).

A Word About The Title Bar:

Now The Title Bar not only shows the name of the program and file but now you can bring your shot cuts right up here.

EXCEL:

Remains more or less same except the additions applicable to excel.

ACCESS:

I think Access in 2007 has hot a sea change. With excellent templates and tools with option for creating your own data structure. Beside changing the main menu options here are some of new and important updates.

CREATE:

First a very good incorporation is the s “multiple items”. Here you can have multiple data bases open and a new one where you can create a new table from the two data bases, even copy and paste or edit both the data bases. Single forms can be creates and edited which updates the original data base.
Same applies for forms.

The best part is it does not open up in a New Window but create tabs which can be closed as and when necessary. Right click on a particular tab and there comes the drop down menu with all the necessary option, from one tab you can close all at a time.

Share Point List lest you import data from different sources and if you want will create a link table. Changes in the the source database of in your access data base will update automatically.

SAVED EXPORT:

Viewing and running previously save files is an excellent idea.
Data from Excel sheets can now be imported and incorporated with much more ease.

DATABASE TOOLS

You can split data bases creating a new and never mind about passwords because the new back end data base will have no passwords. This reduces net work trffic. But it is very much recommended by Microsoft to save your database.

POWERPOINT:

The latest addition is the photo album and believe me it is excellent. But What I did not have time to experiment is the possibility of adding mp3 files instead of .avi. If mp3 format is supported it is something of an achievement.

JUST IN CASE:

If you are looking for short cuts just bang on the Logo right on top at the left hand corner.

Best works in XP and Vista
Maximum disk space required: 525MB

'''IMPORTANT NOTE: Though not particularly relevant but I think it is pertinent to warn you to protect your files with passwords exceeding 18 characters, otherwise it becomes very easy for the hackers.

© roktimdutta November, 2009
 

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